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NAME
     paste - merge lines of files

SYNOPSIS
     paste [-s] [-d delim-list]  [--serial]  [--delimiters=delim-
     list] [file...]

DESCRIPTION
     This manual page documents the GNU version of paste.   paste
     prints  lines consisting of sequentially corresponding lines
     of each given file, separated by TABs, terminated by a  new-
     line.  If no files are given, the standard input is used.  A
     file name of `-' means standard input.

  OPTIONS
     -_s, --_s_e_r_i_a_l
          Paste the lines of one file at a time rather  than  one
          line from each file.

     -_d, --_d_e_l_i_m_i_t_e_r_s _d_e_l_i_m-_l_i_s_t
          Consecutively use the characters in _d_e_l_i_m-_l_i_s_t  instead
          of  TAB  to  separate merged lines.  When _d_e_l_i_m-_l_i_s_t is
          exhausted, start again at its beginning.

     The long-named options can be introduced with `+' as well as
     `--',  for compatibility with previous releases.  Eventually
     support for `+' will be removed, because it is  incompatible
     with the POSIX.2 standard.



























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